Booker calls Patel "an incompetent lackey"

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Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) launched into a blistering attack on FBI Director Kash Patel during his appearance before the Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, also sparring with the committee's chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). "We don't have an FBI director, we have a lackey here who's using government — and frankly, he's not even a good lackey, he's an incompetent lackey," Sen. Booker said. "He's like an 18-year-old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment to the agency and wouldn't qualify even to be an FBI agent." Sen. Grassley then tried to cut off Sen. Booker, informing him that his time had expired, to no avail. "He is a disgrace, sir, and the fact that we are not asking him — in fact, demanding him — to answer the most basic oversight questions is a further testimony to what is bad," Sen. Booker continued. "What's bad is not just that we have a rogue FBI agent intimidating reporters